QtTextEdit: text content not rendered to QPainter

Question

I have difficulties rendering the context of a QTextEdit to a painter (which prints to PDF). All other widgets are correctly printed, only the text of the QTextWidget is not.

The widgets look fine in the GUI:

But the text of the QTextWidget is not printed to the PDF:

The code is quite simple. Perhaps I need to add additional flags? I would like the text to be rendered the same as it looks in the GUI, so a seperate rendering of the text (using textField->document()->drawContents(&painter), is not the best solution)

QTextEdit* textField= ...
// textedit is correctly visible

QPrinter printer(QPrinter::HighResolution);
...
QPainter painter( &printer );
textField->render(&painter, QPoint(), QRegion(), QWidget::DrawChildren);

Answer 1

In the end, a good solution was to directly render the document of the QTextEdit using drawContents(). This is even better, as it renders to vector graphics.

QTextEdit* textField= ...

// textedit is correctly visible
QPrinter printer(QPrinter::HighResolution);
...

QPainter painter( &printer );
// textField->render(&painter, QPoint(), QRegion(), QWidget::DrawChildren);
textField->document()->drawContents(&painter);